Mount Chevreux () is a mountain, high, standing southeast of
Leroux Bay
Leroux Bay () is a bay long in a northwest–southeast direction and averaging wide, between Nunez Point and the narrow Magnier Peninsula surmounted by the Magnier Peaks and Lisiya Ridge, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The ...
on the west coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
in Antarctica. It was discovered by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several France, French expeditions in Antarctica.
1837–1840
In 1837, during an 1837–1840 Jules Dumont d'Urville#Second voyage of Astrolabe, expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain ...
, under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor ...
, who named it for
Edouard Chevreux, a French zoologist.
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References
Mountains of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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